Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,753, Myles Doran, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Gass
Doran, Myles
S 34,753
CONTENTS

10.254
Massachusetts
Myles Doran
Salem in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Six Years
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of July 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of May 1819 and sent to Samuel Putnam Esq. Salem Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819. 58. 66
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sep: 1819. 48. 00
$106. 66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

34 753 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34 753
Myles Doran Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Myles Doran
Private
Col. Nixon's Regiment
Mapachusett June
1777-67 days
But one quarter -
Admitted
X

Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss
On this 25 th day of July A.D. 1818, Before me the Subscriber one of the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth, Personally appeared Miles Doran, aged seventy nine years, resident in Salem, in said Commonwealth, Who being duly sworn, according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War:" - That he the said Miles Doran served six months in Colonel Smith's Regiment and at the expiration of that time was honorably discharged - That in seventeen hundred and seventy seven, he enlisted for three years or during the War, in Capt. Daniels' Company, and served in Col. Nixon's Regiment & General Nixon's Brigade until peace took place, when he was discharged in the State of New York; That he was in both battles with Burgoyne's Army & present when he surrendered - and also, in the battle of Harlem Heights & in the battle of White Plains - and was with General Washington, at York Town, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered - That his services from 1777, until peace took place was upon the continental establishment in the War of the revolution - That he is very indigent and so reduced in his circumstances as to receive his support for some time past from the Town of Salem, in their poorhouse & stands in need

of the assistance of his country for support - That he has no other evidence of his said services, but Doctor Jennison, whose testimony is annexed. -
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid - Myles Doran
I Samuel Putnam Esq. one of the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Myles Doran did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and now transmit the testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War Department, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand and cause the seal of said Court to be affixed this 25 th day of July AD 1818. -
I further certify that the said Myles Doran is very poor & needs assistance from his Country for support - That I well know Dr T. L. Jennison - & he is a respectable Physician - & a disinterested witness - And Doran being in firm, & resident at the Salem almshouse - cannot procure further testimony - And that Wm. Whipple is a magistrate duly auth d to administer oaths, & his signature is annexed as I believe -
sw. 25. July. 18.
25. July 1818
S. Putnam J. S. J. Court at Salem

I Timothy Linnall Garrison of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts physician of lawful age do testify and say that prior to the Revolutionary war, Miles Doran a native of Ireland was an hired man in my father's family. And that in the year 1777 he was likewise in the same employ. And that in the Summer of that year he enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary war for three years or longer. That during a part of the time he was in the company commanded by Peter Clayes in Col. — Nixon's regiment and in Genl. Nixon's Brigade. That he was at Saratoga and witnessed the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne's Army, and then marched to the Southward, and continued (to the best knowledge and belief of this deponent) in the army 'till the close of the war. This deponent likewise testifies & says that a few years since he aided said Miles Doran in an application to Congress for pay for land which said Doran supposed was his right. But that it failed of taking effect because said Doran had enlisted for three years and not during the war. He also is firmly persuaded that said Doran has never been placed on any pension list, since the termination of sd war: and is knowing that said Doran for some years last past has been supported by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by reason of his age and indigent circumstances.
Massachusetts of all the in & for the at the Reqd. the Supreme going before iting and the seal of,
Midddlesex ss. Cambridge May 27th 1818. Personally appeared Timothy L. Garrison of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex Physician, and made oath that the facts abovenarrated are by him subscribed and true, before me William J. Whipple Justice of the Peace —
Tim: L. Garrison
W. J. Whipple

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss. I, Jehaleel Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State, in & for the County of Essex, do certify that the Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Courts, that the foregoing signa- -ture is his proper hand writing and that the Seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court.
Salem. August 17, 1818.
Jehaleel Tucker, Clerk,

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Doran, Patrick GRADE Sergeant LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11158 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED August 4, 1789
TO not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.